{"id":3878,"date":"2024-04-03T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T10:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/?p=3878"},"modified":"2024-04-03T10:00:02","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T10:00:02","slug":"left-to-rot-how-a-prisoner-cleaned-up-panamas-dirtiest-jail-and-its-inmates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/?p=3878","title":{"rendered":"Left to rot: how a prisoner cleaned up Panama\u2019s dirtiest jail \u2013 and its inmates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>La Joyita prison was notorious for its squalor but a recycling scheme has helped rehabilitate inmates and eased gang fights.<\/p>\n<p>La Joyita prison, just outside Panama City, was notorious for being filthy, overcrowded and dangerous. It was known as the \u201cstomach of the beast\u201d for those confined within its walls. \u201cWe literally lived on top of rubbish,\u201d says Franklin Ay\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was everywhere \u2013 in the corners, in the corridors,\u201d says Ay\u00f3n, who was imprisoned for drug trafficking in 2012. \u201cWe had to sit with a towel over our head to eat, just so the flies wouldn\u2019t land on the food.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ay\u00f3n, an agronomist by profession, came up with a plan. In 2014, he designed a recycling scheme that he named EcoS\u00f3lidos: prisoners at La Joyita, one of the country\u2019s largest prisons, would collect, separate, recycle and sell waste. And their work would earn them reduced sentences.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/mar\/07\/la-joyita-jail-panama-prisoners-gangs-squalor-waste-recycling-ecosolidos-geoazul\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read more here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La Joyita prison was notorious for its squalor but a recycling scheme has helped rehabilitate inmates and eased gang fights. La Joyita prison, just outside Panama City, was notorious for being filthy, overcrowded and dangerous. It was known as the \u201cstomach of the beast\u201d for those confined within its walls. \u201cWe literally lived on top of rubbish,\u201d says Franklin Ay\u00f3n. \u201cIt was everywhere \u2013 in the corners, in the corridors,\u201d says Ay\u00f3n, who was imprisoned for drug trafficking in 2012.  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3880,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3878\/revisions\/3880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}